Professor Thorndike on the Profit Motive

IT IS ALWAYS an occasion for surprise and distress when Jove nods. Among scientific leaders in America there is none more careful to try to state fairly and honestly his opponents' position, than Edward L. Thorndike. Why then, the complete misunderstanding and misrepresentation of critics of the profit motive, in Thorndike's article in the September number of Harpers Magazine?

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